19-20 October 2007. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference. Presented paper “Irish Political Parties and Policcy Stances on European Integration: A Research Note.”

Presentation to the Political Science and Political Economy Group, London School of Economics, 16 October 2007. Title: “Estimating Party Policy Positions with Uncertainty Based on Manifesto Codings.”

Voters, Coalitions, and Democratic Accountability Workshop Funded by the British Academy University of Exeter, October 5-6, 2007. University of Exeter. Presented paper “Party Policy and Group Affliation in the European Parliament.”

European Consortium for Political Research Conference, 8-10 September 2005, Budapest. Presented paper “National Party Competition and Support for European Integration.” (with Alex Baturo)

Workshop on Party Switching, July 10-14, 2005, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Presented two papers: “Party Groups and Policy Positions in the European Parliament” (with Gail McElroy) and “The Integer Arithmetic of Legislative Dynamics” (with Michael Laver).

2002 Annual Meeting of the Political Studies Association of Ireland, 18-20 October, Jury’s Hotel Belfast. Presented paper “Campaign Spending in the Local Government Elections of 1999” (with Michael Marsh).

2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Mariott Copley Place and Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, August 26-September 1. Presented paper “The Evolution of Policy-Seeking Political Competition Between Elections” (with Michael Laver).

2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Mariott Copley Place and Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, August 26-September 1. Presented paper “The Evolution of Electoral Systems in Eastern Europe.”

Ecological Inference Conference, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University, June 17-18, 2002. Presented paper “ Instrumental’ and expressive’ voting in mixed- member electoral systems: Split-ticket voting in Italy” with Daniela Giannetti and Michael Laver.

60th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 25-28, 2002. Presented paper “Money Always Matters? The Effects of Campaign Spending in the Irish Local Elections of 1999” with Michael Marsh.

European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, September 6-8, 2001. Presented paper, “A Theory of Electoral Systems.”

18th Annual Political Methodology Summer Conference, Emory University (Atlanta, GA), July 19-21, 2001. Presentation of paper “Fission and Fusion in a Party System.”

Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Department of Bacterial Diseases, New Haw, Surrey (UK), June 22, 2001. Led seminar on “Data-Mining and the Analysis of Gene Expression Data.”

59th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 19-22, 2001. Presented paper “Institutional Change and Persistence: The Origins and Evolution of Poland’s Electoral System 1989-2001,” with Jacqueline Hayden.

Nuffield College, Oxford University, January 19, 2001. Gave a talk on “A Theory of Electoral Systems” to Sociology and Politics Seminar.

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 32nd National Convention. Adams Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado, November 9-12, 2000. Participated in a roundtable on “Post- communist Elections: Trends and Meanings.”

2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Mariott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C., August 31-September 3, 2000. Presented “Strategic voting in Mixed- Member Systems: The Italian Case,” with Daniela Gianetti and Michael Laver. Also presented “Two Step Forward, One Steps Back: Electoral Strategy in the Hungarian Elections of 1998.”

58th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 27-30, 2000. Presented paper “The Comparative Statics of Fission and Fusion in a Party System,” with Michael Laver.

1998 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Mariott Copley Place and Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, September 3-6, 1998. Presented paper “The Number of Parties: New Evidence from Local Elections.”

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 14-47, 1996. Presented paper “Rethinking Duverger’s Law in Hungary’s Elections: Electoral Systems as Political Compromises,” co-authored with John W. Schiemann.

Conference on Political Methodology, July 1996. Presented dissertation research drafts “Hungary’s Endogenous Electoral System,” and “The Generalized Largest Remainder Electoral Formula” at a poster session.

Democracy, Markets, and Civil Societies in Post-1989 East Central Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 17-19, 1996.